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Avalanche in Austria

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:23:44 GMT

BBC saying 3 killed in an avalanche in Austria. No further details yet.

Re:Avalanche in Austria

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:03:36 GMT

Looks huge. Same face slid last year, according to someone on Snowheads.

Re:Avalanche in Austria

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:49:23 GMT

Here's an update: BBC news

Re:Avalanche in Austria

Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:22:11 GMT

dobby wrote:Looks huge. Same face slid last year, according to someone on Snowheads.

There's video of last year's avalanche in the video in this article :- http://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2757594/

The size of that is difficult to comprehend and this picture of one of the recovery digs (the victims were under more than 8m of snow) has to be one of the most chilling images I've seen in a while. Credits unknown but reproduced here to remind us all that there is a lot of snow up high, and there will be more avalanches of this size in coming days.

Re:Avalanche in Austria

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:47:43 GMT

8 metres?!